Human rights groups accuse police and other government agents of “selling” migrants and the poor to gangs as slaves.

The National Congress will soon begin discussions about new laws that would promote, if not encourage, negotiations between the government and criminals.

Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, and the National Council on Public Safety have come up with new regulations to promote better safety measures within the most violent municipalities.

Leaders of Sendero Luminoso in Peru are being tried for crimes against humanity, despite their protestations of innocence.

Bolivia’s Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes has reportedly been beaten to death by miners protesting in the region of Panduro.

La Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos Del Paraguay (Codehupy) has claimed that the best way to combat the violent guerilla organization, the Ejercito del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP, the Paraguayan People’s Army), is to ameliorate the South American nation’s rampant corruption and inequality.

A staggering increase in organized crime throughout Honduras has driven many of that nation’s citizens to flee beyond its borders. The phenomenon, which has affected all the countries in the Central American Triangle, has gone unnoticed by many and urgently requires more attention.

Maritime exportation of drugs has replaced the use of planes, and Latin American ports are porous. 

Historic court proceedings are wrapping up in the Argentinian region of Córdoba in which victims and their family members could finally see justice for human rights violations during the Dirty War.

Questionable “authorities” dispossessed families of their homes and valuables.